Carrion Lyrics

CARRION - British Sea Power
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A beautiful song, with some close, but not quite there tabs. I hope you enjoy it.
Guitar I: Lead (Noble)
Guitar II: Rhythm (Yan)
Chords (I prefer the open chords, but barre chords can be used as well)
j7
Main Riff:
The first phrase is played over a different chord after every repeat. First over C, then
then G, then Em, then C, then D
Verse 1:
G D Bm C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (hyphen means quick change)
Carrion, inside of your heart
Under the brine, you won't notice the dark
Can stone and steel, and horses' heels ever explain the way you feel
From Scapa Flow to Rotherhithe, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Bridge:
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
Chorus:
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Main Riff (Repeat first phrase only twice)
Verse 2:
So irrigate your heart until you know you're complete
And your draped in kelp, below by 8,000 feet
"My soul," she cried, "I thought you'd died amid fumes of formaldehyde"
You have been gone for so long. I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide
Bridge 2 (with lyrics):
My love, I felt the lapping of an ebbing tide!
C-Cmaj7 C-Cmaj7-C-Cmaj7 (Notes and chords change together)
Main Riff
Solo:
Interlude:
When this corpus christic isle became a landed ocean blue
Again she cried, "You turned my eye"
At mentions of "no matter why"
(First phrase of Main Riff repeated for the rest of Interlude and First Chorus)
And in the end an August sun
Of one by one it blew
Until the devil screamed in the evermore
In envy of the grace we saw
The sound? (Chorus starts here making the rest of the Interlude lyrics unintelligible)
Chorus:
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
Brilliantine mortality
Oh the heavy water, how it enfolds
The song, the spray, the gorgeous undertow
Always, always, always the sea
G (Guitar stops)
Brilliantine mortality
In summation:
Main Riff
Main Riff (Shortened)
Main Riff
Chorus (x2)
I don't know what it is. Also, The lyrics of the interlude are hard to distinguish, so those
my approximations. Enjoy.
| ^ bend
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note